Domain Name Blog

Russian Domain Name is on the rise. As discussed in a previous article, Ru domain name celebrated its 1,000,000 domain name in April, 2008. It seems that it will have taken only a year to hop to the 2,000,000 mark. It is early days yet, but we can confirm that 1,800,000 domain names has been [...]

Well, I know you love a bit of domain statistics from time to time. Here’s what is happening in Latin America. During October the higher growth of domain names in absolute values are following:

Over two years since it’s launch and MOBI zone has grown to more than a million domain names – the activity in the area of the sites for mobile devices and cellular phones is high. The domain tld administrator dotMobi says the zone will continue to grow.
The volume of mobile content is rapidly increasing, just [...]

Today is IWF (Internet Watch Foundation) Awareness day – the only day in the year when everyone is trying to be aware about filth and fraud ruling the internet.
Afilias, the registry of INFO domain names, has actually tried to switch from words to deeds. The company has found methods to cut the abusive sits on [...]

LatinoamerICANN published its monthly report with domain name statistics in Latin America for September 2008.
One of the main points is that the region at last exceeded the amount of 4,000,000 domain names delegated and it represents a growth of 17,87% from the beginning of the year.
The leader TLD is Argentina (.AR) followed by Brazil (.BR), [...]

Did you know that despite of being one of the fastest growing zones in the cyberworld, only about 70% of .UK domain names get renewed on time? Many people are losing their domains or paying £80 activation fee due to lack of understanding .UK. Nominet – the governing body of UK domain names has [...]

Just a couple of days after the .ORG 7 million milestone, Nominet has announced that UK domain name has reached the 7 million registrations mark, too. Congratulations!
Michelle Taylor, the owner of Toots Driving School in London, who registered the 7 millionth domain name tootsdrivingschool.co.uk, explained that she

Another anniversary! .ORG Domain just reached 7,000,000 registrations maintaining its status as the third most popular international top level domain.

The volume of the domain zone of China continues to increase. It was revealed by CNNIC that during the 2nd quarter of 2008 the Chinese domain .CN has added to the number of registered domain names by 18%. CN is the fastest growing internet zone in the world to date. With 12,264,615 registrations it has [...]

Back in 2005 when .mobi TLD came alive, it was the first time someone has reserved premium domain names to sell them afterwards at sky-high prices. In fact, dotMobi consortium received much criticizm about that. They call it “for distribution using non-traditional allocation models” where the idea is just to get more than a reg [...]